India Prays for Rain as Water Wars Break Out

The monsoon in India is late and all that people can do is pray for rain as water wars break out. "It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of...

“Food From Heaven” Saved Millions of Dutch

64th Anniversary of WWII Test Food Drop Flight, April 29, 2009 Early morning, April 29, 1945 Delayed by horrendous weather for two days, a Lancaster bomber finally rumbled down the runway to begin a dangerous...

Banning Order Over Famine Song

" Banning order over Famine song A Rangers fan has been given two years probation and a football banning order for singing the 'Famine Song'. William Walls, 20, was found guilty of breach of the peace, aggravated...

Ireland to impose first new begging penalties in 160 years

Dublin is cracking down on beggars, for the first time since the Potato famine.  It's a shame that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, in any kind of situation.  "DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland plans to impose...

Gaza: A Dire life Zone Still Clings to Hope

Following Israeli raids that killed around 15 Palestinians within one week, many rockets were fired into Israel in a reprisal of Israeli’s provocation. As usual Israel started to blame Palestinians despite it...

Aid Plane Crashes In Congo, all aboard feared dead

An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...

Aid Plane Crashes In Congo, all aboard feared dead

An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...

A flower that bears seeds of doom?

Bamboo, that is used so extensively in northeast India for various purposes like building houses, bridges, in medicines, and more, spells doom in the form of famine the moment it starts flowering. But is it true,...

The War in Somalia, Black Hawk Down, and Katrina All from Global Warming?

 Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down' By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com The writer, while in the US Army,  can't remember in my mobilization orders that we had a war on Global...

Cuban help to Africa cannot be ignored

It is not easy to read stories or articles on assistance and solutions to poverty and diseases within Third World countries. This article printed by Gramma International would probably not...

The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation'

" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to...

Food prices to stay high for a decade

An FAO summit held in response to the glopbal food crisis has concluded that the era of cheap food for the Earth is over, and that global food prices are likely to remain high for at least the next decade. This...

Ireland to mark famine disaster

"The victims of the Irish Famine are to be remembered in an annual official memorial day, which is to be established in the Republic of Ireland.It is believed that about one million people in Ireland starved in...

Sudan's Darfur crisis enters its 5th year

From the 1994 famine to five years of Darfur. What is the solution?

Boston Tea Party Hit Corporate Monopoly

"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action against a corporate monopoly that led to the birth of the United States. The raiders of the Tea Party pledged silence for 50 years. One of them, George R. T. Hewes, lived...

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